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24 mins read|03/31/20Righteousness by yourself is not just hard, it is impossible. It does not come about by your purity, your activity, or your loyalty. It comes through one thing: faith.
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14 mins read|02/20/20When Jesus preaches the gospel, he is preaching himself. Jesus’s good news is the good news about himself.
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7 mins read|11/19/19God comes to fix what is broken by being broken himself. He abolishes death by dying. He subsumes sin by being made sin itself.
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19 mins read|08/08/19Overcrowding on Mount Everest betrays what our culture worships. We bow down at the altar of the impossible to be seen as the conquerors, the champions.
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9 mins read|01/23/19The rich young ruler’s inquiry to the Lord Jesus in Mark 10:17–22 (along with Matt. 19:16–22; Luke 10:25–28) remains increasingly prescient for us today.
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13 mins read|11/02/18The salvation of wretched sinners by an omni-holy and forever-righteous God is, by all accounts, a categorical impossibility.
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14 mins read|10/26/16Have you ever really thought about how crazy your salvation is? You may have never thought of it in those terms, but truly, your redemption and rescue from eternal damnation is a jarring truth, one that should spawn tears of joy and shouts of praise.
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21 mins read|08/15/16The Christian life is compared to many things throughout Scripture. It's likened to a soldier going to war, a sheep under the care of a shepherd, or the journey of a pilgrim to a far-off city.
